Neo News: Week in Review – January 26 – February 1

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General Updates

Neo co-founders Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei met in Hong Kong on Jan. 26, 2026, with the goal to resolve escalating disagreements over governance and financial oversight. The meeting ended without reconciliation. Instead, the meeting marked the beginning of a new round of public disagreement, revealing significant differences in vision and interpretation between the two leaders. Both founders have publicly stated commitment to Neo’s success, though along parallel paths, each emphasizing different definitions of accountability, oversight, and leadership.

Neo co-founder Erik Zhang announced the establishment of Neo Global Resources, a new organization dedicated to advancing blockchain research and driving real-world commercial adoption of Neo technologies. NGR seeks to focus on conducting forward-looking blockchain research, transforming technical innovations into practical engineering solutions, and building global partnerships with enterprises and institutions across diverse industries. The organization aims to work closely with developers, researchers, and ecosystem participants to expand Neo’s technology stack through an open and pragmatic approach. This initiative signals a top-down effort to focus Neo’s vision on practical, real-world applications.

Neo co-founder Da Hongfei expects to release a comprehensive preview of the Neo Financial Report by Feb. 15. The report will be detailed and used for financial verification, budget planning, and governance reform.

COZ announced the return of Proof of Working, a community initiative designed to support independent contributors making tangible progress in the Neo ecosystem. Originally introduced to spotlight underfunded but impactful efforts, the initiative is being revived with renewed focus on rewarding builders, educators, analysts, and researchers whose work may not fit into traditional funding streams.

NeoDashboard announced the cessation of development on two ecosystem projects, the NDMEME meme token initiative and the War on Bugs game, signaling a departure from Neo-related activities. Concurrently, a GrantShares DAO proposal to remove the team as voting members had garnered mixed support. Voting concluded on Feb. 1, resulting in the removal of the members from the DAO.

SpoonOS launched a Web3 skills marketplace alongside two community-facing initiatives: a skill-capture community campaign and a builders campaign featuring a US $5,000 rewards pool. The marketplace introduces a decentralized framework for creating, sharing, and monetizing modular AI agent components, known as “skills,” on the Neo blockchain.

SpoonOS launched a Web3 Skills marketplace alongside two community-facing initiatives: a Skill capture community campaign and a builders campaign featuring a US $5,000 rewards pool. The marketplace focuses on helping developers create, share, and reuse modular agent capabilities, with rewards for participation including NFT badges on Neo X and potential $GAS-based rewards for standout contributors.

SpoonOS hosted a Space titled “Skills as the New Primitive: How AI Agents Evolve in Web3.” The Space featured speakers from Sentient, LazAI Network, Unbiased, and Neura. A prize pool of 200 USDT was available for 20 random listeners.

nDapp released a weekly N3 $GAS check-in, noting that network users claimed approximately 71,403 $GAS over the past week and that on-chain activity burned about 1,550 $GAS.

NNT hosted a GasBot Trivia round in which participants competed for a pool of 4 $GAS rewards.

Frank Coin hosted a GasBot trivia contest on the FrankCoin channel of the NeoF1 Discord server, rewarding participants with 3 $GAS.

Developer Updates

COZ released Neo3-boa v1.5.0, an update to the Python compiler for Neo N3 smart contracts that adds Python 3.14 support, introduces local storage interop syscalls, implements new StdLib methods, and enhances developer experience with improved compiler warnings and optimizations.

Neo SPCC announced that container change operations via the NeoFS REST Gateway were temporarily suspended due to a security issue. Operations will resume after an upgrade goes live on MainNet in the second week of February.

NNT Catch Up

NNT released Episode 106 of The Smart Economy Podcast featuring Zeymer Montes, founder of $MOCA, a crypto payments and wallet ecosystem designed to make on-chain finance usable for everyday people and merchants. Topics of discussion include how $MOCA’s POS system lets merchants accept crypto with minimal training, why familiar language matters when onboarding non-crypto users, how encrypted messaging fits into $MOCA’s broader payment ecosystem, and much more.

NNT hosted Crypto Coffee and Blockchain Beer Spaces #82 on the official The Smart Economy Podcast X account with guest Cameron Browne of Darien Advisors. Topics of discussion included the Potential Clarity Act’s implications for tax reporting, how to prepare for future tax law changes, best practices for tax preparation, tips for using custodial exchanges, how to avoid getting flagged for IRS audits, and the pros and cons of using AI for tax preparation.